Connectivity Tools

Connectivity is essential for successful next-generation
applications. Today, enterprise software must interact with a myriad
of diverse applications and databases.

Allegro Common Lisp's Java and C++ interfaces, SOAP and XML
support, CORBA ORB, database connections and powerful foreign function
interface provide the necessary tools to link programs and
functionality within an enterprise and across business partners
quickly and efficiently.

Allegro Web Services

Compose and deploy Web Services applications dynamically in Lisp.

SAX/DOM XML Parsers: Validating XML parsers, tested against
all major test suites. Faster than the C++ and Java versions

SOAP API: Enables Allegro CL applications to communicate with new
and legacy applications on the internet via the SOAP protocol, and to
access web services over the internet

Allegro Webactions: A Web Application Framework on AllegroServe
for building dynamic web pages that can be easily maintained and
updated. Webactions provides a clear distinction between web design
and programming, allowing web designers to work independently from
programmers with their choice of tools. While similar to the Java
Struts in concept, is much simpler to use and more powerful for
application evolution

JAVA Tool Suite

Connect seamlessly to Java applications, without additional software.

Package Allegro CL applications as Java Beans or Servlets

Allegro jLinker: Directly call Java methods as if they were Lisp
functions and vice-versa

Allegro JiL: Dynamically generate and compile Java code to run
in the Java Virtual Machine

Allegro ORBLink™

A CORBA-compliant ORB designed for developers who need to connect
Lisp to legacy code or systems written in other languages in a robust,
standardized manner.

CORBA 2.1 with POA (Portable Object Architecture)

Allegro ORBLink applications can be distributed for load sharing
or fault-tolerance

OLE/COM
Support: A high-level
OLE/OCX interface to complement the existing low-level interface
that has been available for some time. The core of the high-level
interface is automatically reading typelibs and automatically creating
the interface on the Lisp side. Common Graphics widgets can be defined
for arbitrary OCX controls

XML-RPC

Industry standard protocol that allows applications written in
different languages and/or separated by firewalls to communicate over
the Internet.

To access and/or create third-party servers

Lighter-weight alternative to CORBA

Lisp RPC

Allows one Lisp image to call functions and access data in another
Lisp image anywhere on a network.

Lighter-weight alternative to CORBA

Facilitates splitting an application into distributed components

Enables effective use of multi-processor architectures, where
distributed components may utilize several processors

New security features to prevent accidental and inadvertent
interference

Shared memory communication for an alternative to network
sockets - up to 50x faster!

Revised documentation: more examples and expanded explanations

Foreign Function Interface

Calling code written in other languages dynamically in a running
Allegro CL application.